diff --git a/doc/Remove-Account.md b/doc/Remove-Account.md
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@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ with your web browser.
 You will need to be logged in at the time.
 
 You will be asked for your password to confirm the request.
-If this matches your stored password, your account will immediately be blocked to all probing.
-Unlike some social networks we do **not** hold onto it for a grace period in case you change your mind.
-All your content and user data, etc is instantly removed.
-For all intents and purposes, the account is gone in moments.  
+If this matches your stored password, your account will immediately be marked as deleted.
+There is no grace period, this action cannot be reverted.
+Most of your content and user data will be deleted shortly in the background.
 
-We then send out an "unfriend" signal to all of your contacts.
-This signal deletes all content on those networks.
-Unfortunately, due to limitations of the other networks, this only works well with Friendica contacts.
-We allow four days for this, in case some servers were down and the unfriend signal was queued.
-After this, we finish off deleting the account.
+We then send out a notification about the account removal to all of your contacts so that they can do the same with their copy of your data.
+
+For technical reasons some of your user data is still needed to transmit this removal message.
+This remaining data will be deleted after a period of around seven days.
+
+To disallow impersonation we have to save your used nickname, so that it can't be used again to register on this node.